Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 1927, when dilution began, True Story promised much, gave little. On its cover was a colored picture of a voluptuous-looking woman with hair down, shoulders bare except for a hint of negligee. The story titles included "The Price of Secret Love," "The Treacherous Kiss," "My Terrible Mistake," "My Reckless Romance," and even more urgent subtitles. But, though the number of thwarted seductions increased alarmingly, there were only two successful ones. This issue also contained a page bearing the legend...
...furious waxed the German protest that the British Foreign Office finally informed the British Board of Film Censors that the licensing and release of Dawn would be "most objectionable." While the Board was expected to follow this hint, British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain thought it necessary to clarify his personal views in an announcement made by his private secretary...
...pictures were the images of flowers seen through two lenses; the first a powerful magnifying glass, the second the iris of a perspicacious inward eye, whose function was to give clarity a significance beyond the decorative. In the way a purple petunia spread its violent petals, there was a hint, a symbol for truths not necessarily too deep for words to reach but outside the meanings from which words have been derived. It is enough to say that Miss O'Keeffe's paintings are as full of passion as the verses of Solomon's Song...
...Emil Ludwig, the biographer of great men of history, has descended to the present, or at least has given it his passing attention with the hint that he may find time later to do something about it. Dr. Ludwig has named the four greatest living Americans. In his opinion Jane Addams, Orvills Wright, Thomas Edison and John D. Rockefeller are our ranking citizens. It is rumored that upon one of these four (or possible another, for Dr. Ludwig is expected to add another name to his list before completing his present tour) the eminent writer will fasten as the subject...
...from the Treasurer's office, but it is reasonable to assume that if a student takes the trouble to attend a course for which he does not pay, he will emerge sooner or later with enough knowledge to make up for the financial loss. There is, as some may hint, the difficulty that there are no courses here which a student would voluntarily attend. But that is a lie. We know several. Penn State Collegian...